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TOM WAITS:
I’d like to do a new song here. This is uh… it’s about downtown Los Angeles on 5th Street and… all the winos uh… affectionately refer to it as The Nickel. So this is kind of a hobo’s lullaby.
It says sticks and [...]

Breakfast at the Boulevard Club this glorious morning. Smoked Salmon. Eggs Florentine. Fresh Melons and Grapes. Blueberry Scones. Sausages. Fresh cafe, juices and a view overlooking the lake. What was I doing there? Speaking to a group of corporate sponsors for Food Bank Canada’s 20th anniversary “Thank-you” celebration.
 
November 26, 2009
Food Banks Canada
20th Anniversary Breakfast with [...]

Poverty From Those Who Know
Carol Goar 2007
They’d battled drug addiction, cancer, racism, sexual abuse and mental illness, but they all agreed one foe was harder to beat than any of them: poverty.
Once a person loses everything – home, job, income, possessions and dignity – the will to fight wanes. Obstacles become insurmountable. Isolation sets in.
“Being [...]

by David Meagher
In the December edition of “Streams of Consciousness” Dave writes about Rousseau and the “appropriate” form of the state. In relation to this, Dave discusses poverty, currency, and state provision of necessities, arguing, as he has before, for the direct provision of means to the poor.